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Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”

In other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal. On February 28, 1981 the morning newspaper carried a story about the burning of my novel, Bless Me, Ultima. The book was banned from high school classes in Bloomfield, New Mexico, and a school board member was quoted as saying: “We took the books out and personally saw that they were burned.”

Which best describes how Anaya effectively uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censorship is a tool of the powerful?

1. Anaya uses words that lack emotional connotations to present a painful anecdote from his life.
2. Anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books.
3. Anaya establishes his credibility as a published Chicano author by referring to his first novel.
4. Anaya delivers a passionate argument against the ability of school boards to ban books

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2. Anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books.
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The following best describes how Anaya effectively uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censorship is a tool of the powerful:

2. Anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books.

Anaya uses adjectives to describe censorship, he describes it as direct and brutal. However, he builds his argument from a fact. A newspaper carrying a story that one of his novels was burned and banned from high school classes in Bloomfield. Finally, it is clear that censorship is a tool of the powerful with the fact that a board member was quoted saying that they took out the books and ensured that they were burned.

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